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PIA 2574 Resource Guide and Syllabus AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR: Conflict, Governance and Development. Overview. The Bottom Line. Reading: The Bottom Line- Syllabus is a Resource Guide. 1. Read One Required Text: Alex Thompson, Introduction to African Politics

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  1. PIA 2574 Resource Guide and SyllabusAFRICAN DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR:Conflict, Governance and Development Overview

  2. The Bottom Line

  3. Reading: The Bottom Line- Syllabus is a Resource Guide 1. Read One Required Text: Alex Thompson, Introduction to African Politics 2. Choose and Read one other policy Text 3. Choose and read one historical policy analysis (Starred *) 4. Read Four Discussion Books 5. Read Weekly discussion and case study assignments (To Be shared within Class

  4. The Key to Debate?

  5. The Bottom Line: Requirements • Short Bio- Picture, background, and books chosen to read; • Weekly participation in discussion focused on CASE STUDIES; • Research Presentation and Paper • Take Home Exam

  6. The Goal? An African Middle Class Family in Lusaka, Zambia

  7. Research Assignment Original Assignment “Regional Group Oral Presentation and Regional Papers: Each group will make a formal group presentation to the class and prepare a well written group paper (30-40 pages) will be turned in at the end of the semester. The groups will be established according to your region of interest (30%).” Revised Assignment Research Paper Oral Presentation and Papers: Each member of the class will make a formal group presentation to the class and prepare a well written research paper (20 page limit) which will be turned in at the end of the semester. The groups will be established according to your region of interest (30%).

  8. Questions?

  9. Introduction and Overview of Discussion: Theories and Themes • An Overview of the Problem • Regional Failures • Geography • Natural Resources • People, History and Culture • Political Systems and Institutional Collapse • Donor Fatigue and Dependence

  10. African Underdevelopment: Overview- • In early 1983, observers began to pick up rumors that a tragedy of mass proportion was about to occur in the horn of Africa. One projection was that up to thirteen million people in the horn of Africa could starve to death. • Six months latter, drought and civil war led to mass starvation in which millions of people in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia died. A new era began in post-colonial Africa that continues until today. • Instead of social and economic development, journalists and academics focused on, war, collapsed states, humanitarian assistance, donor fatigue and structural adjustment. • That focus continues today.

  11. World’s Largest Refugee Camp, Dadaab, Kenya (500,000 people)

  12. The Image

  13. Africa and Poverty The Question is Why?

  14. African Regions Francophone Lusophone Horn of Africa North Africa Anglophone Africa Southern Africa

  15. South Africa andCongo, 1940s

  16. DISCUSSION POINT: The Failure of Regional Integration in Africa IS REGIONALISM THE ALTERNATIVE TO GLOBALISM?

  17. Fifty Four Countries?

  18. European Languages

  19. Regions and Integration: A brief Overview • An alternative future-Interlocking Regions-Combines Languages and Culture/History • Culture and Politics: Role of Language 1. North Africa- Arabic (Plus French and English) 2. Horn- Somali, Amharic, Tigrinya (Italian Legacy, inc. Libya) 3. Francophone and ECOWAS (The Problem of Anglophone West)

  20. East African Regional Scenarios from Society for International Development (SID)

  21. Regions and Integration: 4. SADC and Southern Africa: 15 countries. Alternative Free Trade Association of Eastern and Southern Africa. Lusophone vs. Anglophone (Special role: South Africa and Settlers) 5. The Great Lakes: Eastern and Central Africa as a style of governance: Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, the Horn (Swahili) Central Africa: Anarchy Zone? Former Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi

  22. A Military Scenario sans Economics

  23. Geography • Tropical Soils • Desertification • Deforestation • Water Loss • Land Use

  24. The African Continent

  25. Africa:Climatic Regions • Tropical Rain Forest • Tropical Savanna and Summer Rain • Low Latitude Dry Climates • Undifferentiated Highlands • Mediterranean

  26. Johannesburg, August 7, 2012

  27. Most of Africa is not rainforest

  28. Regional Features • Rift Valley and Lake Systems • Deserts: Sahara and Kalahari/Namib • River Systems: Nile Niger Congo Zambezi Volta

  29. Congo River

  30. Big Rivers

  31. Patterns of Rain • Monsoon Tropical Rain • Alternating Wet and Dry • Deserts- Sahara, Namib, Kalahari • Shifting Agriculture • Slash and Burn • No Humus/regeneration of soil • Leaching: Nutrients and Minerals

  32. Natural Resources: The PROBLEM: Desertification • Overgrazing • The destruction of forests • Loss of Top Soil • Patterns of Cyclical Drought • Major Declines in Food Production

  33. Deforestation

  34. Okavango Delta

  35. ISSUE: THE NATURE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE • Hunters and Gatherers (none or few) • Pastoralists • Subsistence Farming- roots, grain, Bananas • Cattle and Small Stock • Commercialization of Animal Husbandry and Agriculture • Land Use and Property Rights Issues

  36. European Settlers: Eldoret Kenya, 1960- The Issue of Land

  37. Natural Resource Curse: Elite Extraction and Corruption • Oil- Extraction and Short Term Benefits • Diamonds- Conflict and Blood Diamonds • Gold- Basis of Settler Wealth • Forests • Wildlife

  38. Ten Minute Break

  39. Reminder: verview of Discussion: Theories and Themes • An Overview of the Problem • Regional Failures • Geography • Natural Resources • People, History and Culture • Institutional Collapse • Donor Fatigue and Dependence

  40. People, History and Culture • The Rainbow Nation Myth

  41. San in Southern Africa

  42. Somali Pastoralists in Northern Kenya

  43. HISTORY: Fragmentation, Dependence and Conflict • HISTORY AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT • THE NATURE OF THE PAST • THE IMPACT OF COLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM

  44. African History

  45. From the East

  46. DISCUSSION POINTS: History • Did Things Fall Apart? • Did Europe Under-develop Africa? • Should the Settlers Go Home? • Was Colonialism in Africa Different?

  47. South African Strike, 1922 “ Workers of the world, unite and fight for a white South Africa!"

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